CVOR RN

CHI; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 48,835 - 76,263; Full time

Job summary

CHI seeks a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) to join their team at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will provide high-quality, compassionate care, assess and implement patient care plans, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams. Applicants must have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a current Texas RN license, and at least one year of RN experience. The pay range is $35.45 – $55.36 per hour based on experience, ensuring competitive compensation in a leading healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• At least one (1) year of RN experience upon hire.
• Registered Nurse licensed in Texas upon hire.
• Basic Life Support – CPR certification within 14 days.

Responsibilities

• Admit and assess patient's condition, providing holistic nursing care.
• Design and evaluate care plans, ensuring safe discharge planning.
• Prepare patients for treatments and surgeries to reduce anxiety.
• Reassess patients and modify care based on needs.
• Give and receive comprehensive reports to ensure continuity of care.
• Maintain a safe working environment and report safety concerns.

Skills

Assessment skills

Critical thinking

Patient care planning

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You’ll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will support patient recovery and fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment: Admit and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition; provides nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological, and spiritual needs; notifies doctor of changes that require attention.
• Planning: Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge; works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs; formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
• Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety; knows patients’ conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader and/or physician; implements patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.
• Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions; notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions; adjusts nursing care to meet patient’s emerging and changing needs.
• Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation; provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care; receives report from the off‑going shift and delegates tasks as needed according to coworker’s experience, abilities, and the patient’s acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space; promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location; incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction; reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: Texas, upon hire
• Basic Life Support – CPR, within 14 days
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

Where You’ll Work

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5‑acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading‑edge patient care, research, and education.

Pay Range

$35.45 – $55.36 /hour